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ThinkForward Impact Report 2024/25

ThinkForward delivers long-term coaching programmes for young people at risk of NEET across London, Nottingham and Kent. Their 2024/25 impact report — marking 10 years as an independent charity — records 1,580 young people supported, 73% in positive destinations, and £3 of social value per £1 invested, alongside the launch of a new 2025-2028 strategy to triple their reach.

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Long-term one-to-one coaching, FutureMe programme, Making Strides (learning disabilities), Future Leaders (Black and South Asian pupils), She Speaks, Ready for Work events, employer mentoring Custom geography from upload: England

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 1,580 young people supported; 7,972 one-to-one coaching sessions delivered
Key Metric 2 73% of FutureMe graduates in education, employment or training — 20 percentage points above the national figure
Key Metric 3 £3 of social value created for every £1 invested; 199 Ready for Work events held

Key Outcomes

  • Young people attending 34+ coaching sessions are 79 percentage points more likely to be EET than those attending 0-8 sessions
  • 10 years of impact: 10,000+ young people supported; 75,000+ coaching sessions delivered; £20m+ social value created
  • New 2025-2028 strategy launched with goal to triple number of young people supported and build robust coaching evidence base

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440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
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140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
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373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
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55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
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45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
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95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
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91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
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Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
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Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
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851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
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27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
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94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni